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Chrome browser? Any PPA ? And Flash/Java plugin?[SOLVED]
Re: Chrome browser? Any PPA ? And Flash/Java plugin?
Odd thing is, when I installed it on my Acer Aspire One, running the Ubuntu netbook remix, ALL, and I mean ALL plugins were installed. Flash, Java, quicktime, and many more. I don't know how I did it, but I sure would like it to be that way on my desktop.
Re: Chrome browser? Any PPA ? And Flash/Java plugin?
I think that having alternative (fundamentally different) browsers is terrific, because if something is not working in one, you can try in the next one. Right now we have:
The list order corresponds to how native they look in KDE, according to the GUI libraries they use. Qt is the basis for KDE, and gtk the basis for GNOME.
For everyday use, unless you have very slow connection or very slow hardware, it's hard to beat Firefox as a powerhorse, because they go one thing right: build a platform, not just a browser. People keep building cool extensions, and some of them are very useful. It also works fine with most pages. Khtml is the less robust engine, but Konqueror is the more universal browser (from man pages to remote systems via ssh, plus the web, filesystem, photo-camera, and what not). Webkit, based on khtml, is a lot better. Opera is great overall, and it has its cool Widgets, but it's closed source.
Ok, my 2 cts. Maybe I should post this in a more visible place for newbies ...
Re: Chrome browser? Any PPA ? And Flash/Java plugin?
Originally posted by gutty96
Odd thing is, when I installed it on my Acer Aspire One, running the Ubuntu netbook remix, ALL, and I mean ALL plugins were installed. Flash, Java, quicktime, and many more. I don't know how I did it, but I sure would like it to be that way on my desktop.
Just a guess, but is the laptop running 32 bit and the Desktop 64 bit?
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